APUSH - Spiconardi

THE SEVEN YEARS’ WAR (A.K.A. THE FRENCH

AND INDIAN WAR): THE WAR THAT MADE AMERICA

Under mercantilism, the mother country extracts raw materials from her colony, manufactures the materials into goods, and then sells the manufactured good to the colony

How do you allow for economic growth under this mercantilism? Acquire more land for colonists to live and provide more raw

materials, so the new colonists can buy manufactured goods

MERCANTILISM

Where do the British go for new

land?

What problem(s)

is this going to present?

The Ohio Company

START OF THE WAR

Fearing British aggression, the French build forts on the border of Pennsylvania

A young George Washington is sent to inspect the construction of the French Fort Duquesne

Washington hastily constructs Fort Necessity and soon orders the fi rst shot of the war

The French would retaliate, ambush Fort Necessity and capture Washington

START OF THE WAR

A young George Washington

Benjamin Franklin devises a plan for a unified colonial government to provide defense during the war.

Both the colonies and British Crown rejected the idea

Franklin on the rejection: “The colonial assemblies and most of the people were narrowly provincial in outlook, mutually jealous, and suspicious of any central taxing authority."

ALBANY PLAN OF UNION (1754)

Colonists British

Methods of Fighting Guerilla warfare Marched in formation

Military Organization Colonial militia served under their own captains

British officers wanted to command the colonial militias

Military Discipline No military protocols observed

Drills and tough discipline

Finances Resistance to raising taxes

Colonists should pay for their own defenses and house British soldiers

Demeanor Casual, non-professional

Aristocratic; British officers had servants serve tea

BRITISH/COLONIAL TENSIONS

*First two years of the war went against the British. Advantage French and their Indian allies

William Pitt becomes the new Prime Minister of Great England in 1757 Raises money Increases number of British

troops and naval forcesPitt promises colonial

assemblies that they would be reimbursed for their war expenditures Colonists are happy and

tensions easesBritish eventually win the

war

WILLIAM PITT

The Treaty of Paris ends the war in 1763 France loses almost all

of its North American territory

Spain acquires French lands west of the Mississippi and New Orleans

British acquire French Canada and French lands east of the Mississippi

EFFECTS OF THE WAR

British

National debt jumps from £75 million to £133 million Who’s going to pay?

Britain gained additional land for mercantilist goals

Increased British disdain for colonists Britain tightens hold over

colonies

Colonists

Sense of unity against a common enemy Colonists had a

collective identity (bonds of war)

Proud to be BritishSense of liberty

Defeat of Catholic France was a blow for “Protestant freedom” over “popish slavery”

EFFECTS OF THE WAR

But this sense of nationalism would not last.

EFFECTS OF THE WAR